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This article is based around 3 pieces of flawed research: 1. "German academia doesn’t have world-class universities" https://ommer-lab.com/ https://ommer-lab.

This article is based around 3 pieces of flawed research: 1. "German academia doesn’t have world-class universities" https://ommer-lab.com/ https://ommer-lab.com/ just built Stable Diffusion. Lead author of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine paper is from https://tron-mainz.de/ https://tron-mainz.de/ . Fraunhofer with MP3 / MPEG-H, H265.. 2. Paper Count != Quality One of the main points of the article appears to be to compare "Havard Medical School" against "Germany as a whole" solely based on the number of papers published. But that might also just mean that the US has more junk papers. Or different financial incentives for PhD students. They should have compared something like (number x impact). Or maybe look at conference attendance. 3. Patriotism != Nobel Price Their nobel price diagram is probably just due to different levels of patriotism. Not many people in Germany would proudly proclaim "I'm a German!" in their nobel price biography (due to history). For comparison, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_cou... states that the US has 4x the number of Nobel laureates compared to Germany, which seems just fine considering that the US also has 4x the number of citizens. After misunderstanding the problem, the author then offers a flawed fix: the highest-IQ students from Germany should move to the US

hnbad 4y ago
> TRON (DFG) > Fraunhofer Aha, but those aren't universities, they're institutes. That doesn't invalidate your point but it throws off the statistics the author uses. The author's mistake (if it wasn't intentional) is that they're comparing apples to apples when in this case the honest comparison would be apples to oranges (or rather fruit salads with each other) because in Germany institutes like Fraunhofer are where a lot of the publicly funded research happens that he argues should be happening at universities like in the US.

hnbad 4y ago

> TRON (DFG) > Fraunhofer Aha, but those aren't universities, they're institutes. That doesn't invalidate your point but it throws off the statistics the author uses. The author's mistake (if it wasn't intentional) is that they're comparing apples to apples when in this case the honest comparison would be apples to oranges (or rather fruit salads with each other) because in Germany institutes like Fraunhofer are where a lot of the publicly funded research happens that he argues should be happening at universities like in the US.